Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Ingraham, who captains the Exeter tennis team this year and is also the brother of Captain Ingraham of the University team, is another very dangerous competitor. He is ranked at No. 11 in the annual ranking list of the Tennis Association, four places ahead of Hill in the Junior singles group. Ingraham is the Junior champion of Rhode Island, while his teammate, Richard B. Sewall, is Junior champion of Maine...
...just 16 prescribed courses composed the curriculum of the College; in 1850 these courses remained, changed a little in character yet not in number; in 1875 they still clung on, but with only two years of life ahead of them. The germ of the new Harvard lay not in those time-honored 16 prescribed courses, but in the 12 elective courses that were introduced into the curriculum between 1825 and 1850. The expansion of these, and the growth of the examination period that inevitably went with it, is a barometer of the development of the University...
...been raised. Three inches more, and it was doubled. Three inches more, and Tom was assistant to the manager of his department. My salary had stood still, but I was not downcast; for I had acquired nearly one-third of a liberal education. How little I realized what lay ahead . . . years of disappointments and failures...
...last time Mr. Richards found himself relegated to a minor part and went ahead quietly to play it for all it was worth. As usual the sartorially perfect Nedell displayed all the ham-actorisms with which his work is invariably distinguished. Mr. Collier revelled in a heavy bit, to which he added many an extra ounce of weight. Mr. Collier will play Hamlet some day, if they...
...attained a height of 14,000 ft, made a speed of 125 mi. per hour and climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision ahead; its retractible gear allowing the plane to alight on ship deck, on land, on sea, or to roll up a beach under its own power; with its photographic, wireless and heating arrangements, the Loening is the last word in airplane construction...